Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Carrowkilleen (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkilleen (tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.08217, -9.38797
- SMR number
- MA038-176----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough, wettish pasture bordering the River Deel, which is 20m to S. Ground rises gently to N.
This burnt mound is evident as a low, grass and moss-covered rise (diam. c. 6-7m; H 0.3m). A layer (D 0.2m) of black soil underlies the sod and overlies a concentration of heat-shattered stone in charcoal-rich soil. The exact limits of the mound are indistinct. Traces of cultivation ridges, on a N–S axis, traverse the mound and the surrounding area.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 19 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.